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The Changing Nature of Punishment: From Theology to Reform Ideology and Gallows to Penitentiaries, New England, 1674-1837
… such as Benjamin Rush, Edward Livingston, Thomas Upham, and Robert Rantoul Jr. This study then demonstrates rhetorical shifts that allowed for the possibility of temporal reformation within a penitentiary to be possible. Sin and crime became discrete ideas, sin a moral failing and crime a …